ASUS P8Z68-V LX any good?

stulid said:
Easier/cheaper to RMA to a UK based company than a RMA center in another country, this is why Gigabyte and MSI(despite being in another country they do have a arrangement in place with retailers) are better than ASUS
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Still a pain ,however I've 4 PCs and laptop so not really an issue,plus another problem with that is you are restricted on brand choices if you want UK RMA support,I like to have lots of options when it comes to brands.

I did RMA one OCZ PSU to Holland took 4 weeks(they sent me a newer model),lucky I still had 3 working PCs and laptop as backup ;).

End of the day UK support is nice to have but not essential in my books.
 
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Ok. so i have established that every board has its problems, but what about this board in particular? it does not say if it a gen3 or whatever. what board would you recommend for £100 or under that i can overclock the i5 and without any major known issues?
 
RedTop89 said:
Ok. so i have established that every board has its problems, but what about this board in particular? it does not say if it a gen3 or whatever. what board would you recommend for £100 or under that i can overclock the i5 and without any major known issues?
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Because this board doesnt have any PCI-E switches at all, and thus the top GFX slot gets a full 16X bandwidth at all times, its Gen3 compatible.

Its the Ivybridge CPU that has the PCI-E controller on its die, and so the signal is carried directly to the top slot at 16X without passing through any "switches"

The second GFX slot despite being a physical 16X in size is connected by only 4X to the CPU socket at all times.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-msi-pcie-3.0-gen3-third-gen,13485.html

http://www.gigabyte.com/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1048
 
stulid said:
Because this board doesnt have any PCI-E switches at all, and thus the top GFX slot gets a full 16X bandwidth at all times, its Gen3 compatible.

Its the Ivybridge CPU that has the PCI-E controller on its die, and so the signal is carried directly to the top slot at 16X without passing through any "switches"

The second GFX slot despite being a physical 16X in size is connected by only 4X to the CPU socket at all times.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-msi-pcie-3.0-gen3-third-gen,13485.html

http://www.gigabyte.com/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1048
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I don't understand your post mate, is that the link for a board for £100 or less?
 
RedTop89 said:
I don't understand your post mate, is that the link for a board for £100 or less?
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The posts says that this board (Gigabyte Z68AP-D3, ASUS P8Z68-V LX) because they dont have switches like SLI/more expensive boards, are Gen3 ready.

There is a direct link from the CPU socket to the PCI-E slots.
 
stulid said:
The posts says that this board (Gigabyte Z68AP-D3, ASUS P8Z68-V LX) because they dont have switches like SLI/more expensive boards, are Gen3 ready.

There is a direct link from the CPU socket to the PCI-E slots.
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EDIT: does my suggested motherboard offer poorer performance than the switch boards? I have never gone into the detail like this with a motherboard, i just thought "great a X16 slot".
 
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RedTop89 said:
EDIT: does my suggested motherboard offer poorer performance than the switch boards? I have never gone into the detail like this with a motherboard, i just thought "great a X16 slot".
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Not if you use a single GFX card only.

Its connected 16X for the top one and 4X for the second PCI-E 16X slot at all times.


A motherboard that features PCI-E switches (Gen3 or not) will be 16X for the top slot and only when a second card is inserted will eight of these lanes be diverted (by these switches) to the second slot giving you a motherboard that runs both GFX cards at an equal 8X/8X


So if you are using just a single GFX card you will have the same bandwidth in both scenarios.
 
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stulid said:
Not if you use a single GFX card only.

Its connected 16X for the top one and 4X for the second PCI-E 16X slot at all times.


A motherboard that features PCI-E switches (Gen3 or not) will be 16X for the top slot and only when a second card is inserted will eight of these lanes be diverted (by these switches) to the second slot giving you a motherboard that runs both GFX cards at an equal 8X/8X


So if you are using just a single GFX card you will have the same bandwidth in both scenarios.
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Thanks, i will be running only one 5850. so that is not a problem. Thanks for your info.

Elevon said:
Another option for a decent budget board is the Asrock Z68 Pro3, review here http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4084/asrock_z68_pro3_intel_z68_motherboard_review/index1.html .


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-052-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990 out of stock at OCUK but available elsewhere.
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Thanks for the recommendation, is there any issues with the boot loop like other boards?
 
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I have updated the Bios of my 6 year old Gigabyte board yesterday and it went into a boot loop... I have reverted back to the old bios and it's now normal. Hopefully Gigabyte resolves the Z68 boards with some sort of Bios update. I am using a Asus P8Z68-V atm with no problem. I just boguth a lower end P8Z68-V LX for a second build and hopefully will have no boot loop issues.
 
i have the asus v lx board its a bargin. my 2500k uses 1.29 volts at 4.5 ghz and temps in prime are at 60 c on the hottest core.using auto overclock at first it ran 4.7 ghz but auto voltage is too high and so temps were 72c.need to manually tune for better clocking.
 
I also have the non-LX version if this board for quite a while now (late May), and it's working very well, I don't regret buying it at all!
 
Every single board on the market will have its quirks and niggles, that's just the way it is with complex electronics. All I can say is that i'm very impressed overall with my Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3 board.
 
What issues are the Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 supposed to suffer with ? As I've never had a single problem with mine.
I know some people said their mouse was inverted in the UEFI, but there have been bios updates to cure this, add XMP 1.3 and update USB code.
 
Davefran said:
What issues are the Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 supposed to suffer with ? As I've never had a single problem with mine.
I know some people said their mouse was inverted in the UEFI, but there have been bios updates to cure this, add XMP 1.3 and update USB code.
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Mainly that, I also think people were struggling to get into the BIOS with a USB keyboard, but this might have been MSI (cant remember)
 
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